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1. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
5. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
12. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
15. A tributary of the Rhine.
16. Decreasing in amount or intensity.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. The content of cognition.
19. A person who travels through the water by swimming.
20. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
21. A roofed arcade or gallery with open sides stretching along the front or side of a building.
23. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
24. Capable of wounding.
26. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
29. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
30. State in northeastern India.
37. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. A large fleet.
44. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
45. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
46. A state in midwestern United States.
49. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
50. Large scissors with strong blades.
52. Trace the shape of.
54. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
56. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
58. A person active in party politics.
61. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
63. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
66. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
68. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
69. A horse bred for racing.
71. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
72. One of two shafts extending from the body of a cart or carriage on either side of the animal that pulls it.
74. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
75. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
77. In or of the present month.
78. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
79. Something (especially a game) that is played again.
80. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
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1. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
2. (British) A simple board game in which players move counters according to the throw of dice.
3. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
4. A river in central Brazil that flows generally northward (with many falls) to join the Tocantins River.
5. Obvious and dull.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
9. Be seated.
10. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
11. One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages.
12. Pacific newts.
13. Extremely robust.
14. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
22. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
25. Clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures.
27. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
28. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
31. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
32. Battle of World War II (1944).
33. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
34. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
35. Liquid excretory product.
36. United States sculptor (born in 1924).
38. South African term for `boss'.
41. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
42. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
47. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
48. Of or relating to or being a speech sound that is articulated using both lips.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
53. Type genus of the Balaenidae.
55. The courage to carry on.
57. An analgesic for mild pain.
59. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
60. Of or relating to or affecting a lobe.
62. (dentistry) A filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place.
64. The capital of Belarus and of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
65. A disinclination to work or exert yourself.
67. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
70. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
73. The act of hopping (jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)).
76. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
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